set­ting: Austin, Texas
char­ac­ters:
– a father
– his daugh­ter
– var­i­ous chu­pacabras
– var­i­ous bor­der patrol agents
– some peo­ple to kill right­eously
pub­lisher: Trap­door Book2.
syn­op­sis: the story of the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion between a daugh­ter and her long-gone father, as com­pli­cated by the fact that he’s a bunny-headed zom­bie
place in The Bun­ny­head Chron­i­cles: first
date: to be announced
state of the writer: hap­pi­ness
com­ment: on […]

Or, the logo Jen Michalski’s got up over there’s so cool, I have to paste it here. Click on it for the post on “Exodus.”

Very proud to be part of Dzanc’s Best of the Web anthol­ogy this year. Proud to be under a cover this cool, too:

looks like that “Lonegan’s Luck” (a zom­bie west­ern) I had in NEW GENRE a few months ago’s going to be in The Best Hor­ror of the Year vol­ume 2, ed. by Ellen Dat­low. Very cool, very excited.

For me, any­way. How­ever, the caveat — movies I haven’t seen yet:
THE HURT LOCKER: the title kept me away, yeah. very unde­scrip­tive. or, maybe makes per­fect sense after­ward, but none before.
500 DAYS OF SUMMER: dug the trailer, dig the actors, heard great stuff about it, but, being not-horror, it kept slip­ping down the list.
THE FANTASTIC MR […]

AVATAR 3D in IMAX, wow. it’s SCANNER DARKLY and FERN GULLY and BRAVEHEART as per­co­lated up through DANCES WITH WOLVES and POCAHONTAS. loved it in spite of those last two, even. and, though I can’t find it in his bib­li­og­ra­phy now, I was pretty sure I’d read a Samuel Delaney book/story about wear­ing bod­ies like […]

which is what Bo and Luke used to always do, once the day’s chases and jumps and explo­sive archery fun was over. but, for me, “Jukin” is hav­ing another story in the cool JUKED. “Wolf Island.” com­pletely safe for work, unless you work at a pet store.

new (old) story, “The Many Stages of Grief” (one of my maybe four favorites ever. of mine, I mean. which, yeah, that’s like 180th in the Great List of Sto­ries I Love). the debut issue of PALIMPSEST. Also, a short story “Girls” (only a third as good as the Crue song, yeah) and an essay, […]

New inter­view. All kinds of fun, as always. If I remem­ber cor­rectly, too, that pic there, the shirt I’m wear­ing, I bor­rowed it from some­body in the dri­ve­way of the photographer’s. Had a red out­line of the state of Arkansas, I think. Kind of liked it, but then he wanted it back. Peo­ple (okay: one […]

Espe­cial for Hal­loween­time, “The Ones That Got Away,” the somewhat-title story from the new col­lec­tion and proud par­tic­i­pant in Paul Trem­blay and Sean Wallace’s Phan­tom: Going Beyond the Scare.

One of the big axioms of sto­ry­telling is that you know a char­ac­ter best by the deci­sions he or she makes under extreme cir­cum­stances. It’s why you push your char­ac­ters out into the street, see how they react when traffic’s slam­ming in from all sides at once. Granted, you can rig your story so that […]

Got an article/review/essay (‘response?’) up for it over at Pop­mat­ters. Kind of wanted to call it Gep­petto mon Amour, but fig­ured that might show my roots too much. Those being all in France, yes.
The LINK. Would slap some cool images up here, too, but the guys who do the art over at Pop­mat­ters have […]

I read this review then, no lie, went upstairs, found some shrimp on the counter, ate them. which, for those in the know [see below], kind of mat­ters.
too, I’ve noticed my blog posts in here lately are more ‘blog’ posts, as in, they take the space where a blog post would go, but, really, they’re […]

“In the Begin­ning” and “The Wages: an Argu­ment,” over at the brand-new shiny sparkly Spring­Gun Press.
Really strange that they posted this morn­ing, though — or, that that Wages-one’s real now any­way. Because I just now started the already-excellent Pon­ty­pool Changes Every­thing, which opens like this:
That night I had ter­ri­ble dreams I was killing peo­ple. When I […]

One of my favorite Bowie songs, sure, but, too, the name of a story of mine up over at Every­day Genius today.

Chap­ter one’s up, over at the very cool Plots With Guns.

Iron Horse 11.3’s out in the world now — in my mail­box any­way — and it’s got one of my favorite sto­ries I’ve writ­ten in it, “Lit­tle Lambs.” Also a self-interview (it involved tele­pathic dogs, pos­si­bly aliens — the usual?). Too, it’s the alumni issue, so it’s espe­cially cool to me, being in this with […]